A search & play interface for Spotify
There are several changes to the prior helm-spotify package.
Helm is used here to narrow the candidates received from Spotify API requests.
You can install this package from MELPA.
M-x package-refresh-contents
M-x package-install RET helm-spotify-plusIf you prefer a manual installation you can clone the repo as follows:
cd ~/.emacs.d/site-packages
git clone submodule add https://github.com/wandersoncferreira/helm-spotify-plus(add-to-list 'load-path "~/emacs.d/site-packages/helm-spotify-plus")
(require 'helm-spotify-plus)It's important to have all the dependencies installed. If you choose to use the use-package, there's no need to worry with the dependencies.
+ [Helm](https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm)
+ [Multi](https://github.com/kurisuwhyte/emacs-multi)
Since the change in Spotify API there were some bugs with this package (https://developer.spotify.com/news-stories/2017/01/27/removing-unauthenticated-calls-to-the-web-api/).
However, I fixed the problem by exposing the client ID and secret from this web app inside Spotify environment, which I don't see as a major problem due to the nature of our requests. I don't need to use any private data from Spotify, so I don't see why I should bother you to go there and make your own client ID and secrets.
The current state of this package is fully functional and has zero impact on the previous user experience. Everything should be working as expected. If you have any point to discuss about this topic, plase I would love to hear from you.
There is one basic command helm-spotify-plus that will ask you for an input string:
Enter the (partial/full) name of a track:A list of 250 candidates will popup using a Helm interface.
We also have the concept of keywords which are tokens to explicitly organize your query and increase the hit/miss performance of the requests.
Example of query strings using keywords:
| Input | Action |
|---|---|
| master of | If no identifier is given, the request will use a free Track search |
| a: metallica | Only pass the author |
| t: master of puppets | Only the track |
| a: metallica t: master | Explicitly write the Artist and the Track (partially is allowed) |
| a: john m: US | m informs the market region (it can be used in any search) |
Press TAB in Helm to see Actions over it as well.
As there are no downsides for adding quick DBUS control over Spotify from Emacs, we added some small commands such as helm-spotify-plus-pause, helm-spotify-plus-play, helm-spotify-plus-next available from M-x.
- Helm-spotify works when your buffer is visiting a remote machine.
- Encoding.
- Difficulty to interact with Spotify API directly through Helm interface.
- Album play was only playing the first song of the album. Now its fixed.
- Artist a: keyword indeed filters the result to match artist field.
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c s s") 'helm-spotify-plus) ;; s for SEARCH
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c s f") 'helm-spotify-plus-next)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c s b") 'helm-spotify-plus-previous)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c s p") 'helm-spotify-plus-play)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c s g") 'helm-spotify-plus-pause) ;; g cause you know.. C-g stop things :)The original script was created by Kris Jenkis in 2013.
Any contribution is very welcome! Request of features, bug reports and documentation. Just drop us a line using the Github issues feature.